Hey, my name is Chris Brennan and you're listening to the Astrology podcast in this episode

I'm going to be talking with Astrology Lisa Shime and we're going to be discussing whether the correct designation is

Astrologist or Astrologer for a person who practices the topic of Astrology. So hey Lisa, thanks for joining me. Hey Chris

Glad to be here. Yeah, thanks for coming back again. So this is episode 339. We're recording on Tuesday, February 8th, 2022

starting at 12 actually string at 105 PM in Denver Colorado. So in order to set up the context for this discussion

I'm actually going to answer the question right at the top for those of you that just want to answer to the question and want to find out

whether it's Astrologer or Astrologist

because there's confusion

amongst the public mainly about what the correct designation is and

The answer to that question is that the preferred designation is Astrologer not Astrologist

So this is the designation Astrologer that the vast majority vast vast majority of practitioners

Who practice astrology have adopted and prefer at this point in time in the year, you know, 2022 in the early 21st century

So while Astrologist is not grammatically incorrect and it has some historical precedent where it's been used occasionally

In the past it's not the preferred designation among practitioners today at this point in time

So when in doubt always use the word Astrologer rather than Astrologist and

That's basically the answer to the question and what we're going to do at this point is we're going to

Have a more expanded discussion to clarify and explain why that's the case and talk about some of the issues surrounding it

For those that want more of a deep dive answer into this topic and sort of the ins and outs of it

Mm-hmm, and we particularly want to clarify this and have a discussion for people outside of the astrological community

Because it is usually the greater public as a whole rather than astrologers per se that have an issue with this

Yeah, so it's mainly something where there's confusion in the public

Um, people that are astrologers inside the community the vast majority of them know what the answer that question is

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